The Philippines pushed back its sugar importation plans until mid-2025 to better assess domestic supply after the current crop year’s final harvest.
The decision was...
The United Sugar Producers Federation (UNIFED opposes suggestions to allow industrial users or manufacturers to directly import sugar as a compromise to the government’s...
A worker repacks locally-produced sugar at the Dagonoy Public Market in San Andres Bukid, Manila on Thursday, May 18, 2023. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr....
Sen. Francis Tolentino deferred yesterday’s hearing in the Senate on the so-called sugar importation fiasco due to the absence of Department of Agriculture officer...
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has directed the Department of Agriculture (DA), which he also heads as secretary, to speed up the importation of 64,050...
Senators on Tuesday grilled resigned Agriculture undersecretary Leocadio Sebastian about the unauthorized order to import 300,000 metric tons of sugar, but Senator Risa Hontiveros...
Says Rodriguez merely called for draft plan, not for actual importation
Malacañang on Saturday defended Executive Secretary Vic Rodriguez after his verbal directive to create...
A vendor repacks sugar in his stall at the Quinta Market in Quiapo, Manila, apparently unaware of the ongoing investigation into alleged anomalous importation...
The Sugar Regulatory Administration said Tuesday the mandated importation of sugar in 2022 was above board and the reported high price of domestic sugar...
Food producers and manufacturers asked the government to address the high cost of domestic sugar by deregulating the industry and allowing the open importation...
